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Matthew Cohen writes:
Two days ago we played the gig of our lives at Bristol Colston hall with the mighty and wonderful Marillion, Rach and myself have played many memorable gigs around the world with our previous bands, but these were nothing compared to this experience  - and I mean nothing. 
  The excitement leading up to the show was one that simply cannot be described, and the moment we got up on the stage and began to play was truly exhilarating. We were thoroughly relaxed and well prepared for this show, and we hit the stage with real confidence - both as individuals and as a team - the likes of which I have certainly never known before.  All the things I / we went through to get here, suddenly made sense.

We won the crowd over immediately, and they made us very welcome indeed.  It totally blew our minds and we can't thank you all enough for making us feel so special.  Friday night was something dreams are made of.  Seeing  2000 people having a great time, rocking out with us, and hearing people sing along to our songs is out of this world - Thank you, thank you, thank you... from the bottom of our hearts.

To top it all off, we had the pleasure of the wonderful Steve Rothery joining us on stage for "Within Cold Glass".  We rehearsed the song with him at sound check which was incredible in itself, but when you are on stage and see 5 of your closest friends in the world having the time of their lives, then to look across to see someone as amazing as Steve there with you, playing, well words fail me, but I know my smile said it all

Thank you Steve for everything.

Make a visit to The Reasoning's web site and sample yourself some of the Brilliant songs that we were treated to on Friday www.thereasoning.com

This is the first UK gig that we have been able to get to but with two more to follow plus two possible in store shows I think I'm going to be kept quite busy. As a lot of you probably know I tend to plug my Brother in law's guitar shop, Jam Guitars, as this is based in Bristol it seems like as good a time to give them another plug. Well after a very good first year they are having a Birthday party on the 14th, there will be live music and celebratory discounts. If you want to know more then pop along to their web site (www.jamguitars.co.uk) and read all about the celebrations, all are welcome.

Pete my brother in law (and co-owner of Jam Guitars) and his wife joined us for the evening. My earliest memories of Pete are of him practicing guitar in his bedroom and even then he was playing covers of Floyd, Genesis, and Marillion so we knew he was going to enjoy the evening but we may have a convert in his wife.

Touchstone supported them with a nice set of songs. A new promosing band from London.

But the Reasing did really Rocked. From their opening song "Awakening" till the end.
Think theire strong point is the 3 vocalist (yes 3!) and the ability to lay down absolute fine rock songs, with here and there a proggy angle and a really deep structure.
And it is so surprisingly that the 3 vocalist are so different; Dylan with his raw dirty, sometimes Peter Gabrielesque rock voice, Gareth with his high smooth vocals and Rachel... can describe her voice? No ... she won several prices for her Angelesque voice, I think that says enough. A really fine front lady who takes the lead and is great eyecatcher.
The band is practizing for a year now and it felt if they were years and years on the stage, so proffesional and so easy going.
The set was their entiry album + 3 Karnataka songs ( Time stood still, Talk to me & After the Rain), which were welcomed with great aplause from the crowded. And one rare cover of Deep Purple; Stormbringer. So a perfect mix of dirty rock songs with the subtile and heavenly songs.
The both guitarist giving solo's of a great level and a excellent rocking rhythm section.
Gareth did a very good job on keyboards, supporting and sometimes taking the lead in a song. What a great bunch of musicians.
An excellent set with some great relaxing musicians who gave their best. A week later the adrenaline still rushed thru my veins.
Hope I can catch up with them soon again.

Was nice to meet so many friends; Jamy, Jonathan, Sarah, Chris, Mike, Paul, Roy, Anne, Nigel, Richard, of course the band and no I won't forget David.

Read here an excellent review of one of their live gigs.
And here is another great review.